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There's more to the Cuban embargo than meets the eye. It is true that the Southern Florida Cuban exile community wields a disproportional amount of influence. Florida is almost equ…

On the other hand: - average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.). - literacy rate in Cuba is higher than t…

But it happens at that level. You can't seriously expect anyone to go through life mistake-free. Look at Google's mistakes, for instance. How much money have they thrown after Goog…

I think it means "far exceeds the expectations at his current role". If you get several FEs, then it's time for a promotion.

It is. But that doesn't mean they can't rebuild it (it will NOT be easy, but they have the $$$ to splurge on a talented team)

Agreed. This article starts with a hypothesis ("Marissa Mayer bad!"), and then lays out cherry-picked 'facts' and anecdotes around it. It could as easily have started with "Marissa…

(Time to dust off ye olde account again) This article, while making good points, is written with a slant: to sell a book. Broadly speaking, Marissa's big weakness is that she's a t…

Sigh, not this sh*t again. Yahoo's problem is (and always has been for quite a while) bad middle-management. (See my earlier posts; like Punxsatawney Phil, I come out only on occas…

From what I can tell as an outsider: Loeb thinks the company is valued at $18 - $20 range or possibly higher (thanks to its Asian assets). If he can drive down the price, he can lo…

s/microsoft/yahoo/ig and it would be dead on. After reading this rant, I'm starting to think that all software companies become like this after a while. Extrapolating, I'm guessing…

The managers always survived layoffs; the engineers, not so much. Has that changed now? probably current Yahoos can tell, but I imagine there a bit busy right now to post on HN.

Yahoo has over 18,000 employees (and not 14,000). The extra 4,000+ are contractors. This is a scheme that the bureaucrats at Yahoo figured out pretty early: announce layoffs, and t…

You hit the nail on the head. Mediocre, petty middle managers are the algae that are sucking the oxygen out of Yahoo. I may get jeered for saying this, but a non-trivial amount of …

Notice I said "many cultures". For example: in some Arab cultures, if you sit with your sole (of your foot) towards the other person, it is considered an insult. I remember Diane S…

It's all starting to make sense now. Carol Bartz and Jack Ma did not get along at all. She chewed him out in front of his underlings in Sunnyvale when they first met; and he never …

A year or so ago, there was a survey done (we had such surveys every quarter) which asked the employees how much confidence they had in the top-level management. The answer? Only 1…

I apologize if it appeared that I was hating on Bangalore (or Beijing). I was not. What I am against is outsourcing based on the simplistic math that you can get "3 for the price o…

An ex-Yahoo here, using a throwaway account. Yahoo's biggest problem is the creamy middle layer of managers. They are usually lifers (as in, been at Yahoo for a decade), or fresh M…